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When the first wave of pirated videotapes from the West reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was naturally illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it Commando, or The Godfather, or Emmanuelle, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe, you’d get arrested; maybem you wouldn’t.

El amor llegó en su escarabajo amarillo Un misterio. Una aventura. Una pasión por descubrir. Dos chicas jóvenes, impulsivas y apasionadas están dispuestas a tomar de la vida justo lo que quieren. Creen tener todo lo necesario para alcanzar el éxito en cada uno de sus proyectos y caprichos, sin embargo, la vida está a punto de darles una importante lección. Mientras un enigmático auto amarillo aparece y desaparece por el campus de la universidad, estas jóvenes rebeldes irán descubriendo, poco a poco y paso a paso, que hay que pensárselo dos veces antes de formular un deseo, sin ...

Shorthand/typist Claribel struggles to find another job after her London employer goes bust in the economic difficulties of the early eighties. At last she’s offered a post at a country estate in rural Wiltshire, but she’s not sure she wants it. The signs are not good. On her first day a Rolls Royce almost knocks her off her bike. She’s supposed to be staying in the old stable block, but there’s no furniture. And who is the autocratic owner who has such a thing about privacy and security. She begins to think she got the job because no one else wanted it. And then there’s his ...

Charlotte Milford is passionate for justice. It’s twenty-five years since her father died in mysterious circumstances at an army base in India, her whole lifetime. Determined to discover what actually happened, she sets out on a journey that will place her in considerable danger. It will also throw her in the path of Ingram Sinclair, a cynical undercover army major who thinks Charlotte would be better to keep her mouth shut and go home. She has other ideas… This is the third of Ms Fisher’s Victorian stories based on society scandals of the time (the first two being Fair Play & Foul ...

TouchPoint Press presents Nightmares of Strangers, an anthology of 13 eerie stories that will spark feelings of unease and paranoia with just the right helping of fear to last beyond the night - a devilish deal, the return of the murderous H.H. Holmes, a ghost that isn’t what it seems, and other spine-tingling tales that will make you double-check the locks, look under the bed, and wonder what really made that loud “thump” in the attic.

Quatre univers de la littérature russe magnifiquement et subtilement retranscrits par deux très grands comédiens. Tout en douceur et en sensibilité, Dominique Blanc interprète "La Dame de pique" et "Une âme simple". Avec une voix grave et une présence "terrienne", Jean-Claude Carrière lit "Le Nez" et "Zinotchka".

The Horse Adjutant is the Nazi wartime story of a 12-year-old Jewish boy named Leon Schagrin from a world steeped in Jewish mysticism, to a slave worker in a Nazi workcamp. His story, spoken in the first person, will place you in his shoes, so you will never forget the Nazi Holocaust.

In this book author Leon James argues that the First Advent was accomplished by Jehovah Himself, the God of the Old Testament, Who incarnated physically as Jesus, becoming God’s Divine Human of the New Testament, and that the Second Advent was a mental Advent that took place in the 18th century in the Writings of Swedenborg. These prophetical Writings constitute the Third Testament that reveals the inner spiritual sense of the Old and New Testaments. From then on, every person of all religions is admitted into heaven following the three-day dying-resuscitation procedure of the afterlife ...

En Después del Baile, el joven oficial Nejliúdov asiste a un baile de la alta sociedad donde se reencuentra con Kátia, una joven campesina que años atrás había seducido y abandonado. Atormentado por la culpa, Nejliúdov decide enmendar su error y busca redimir a Kátia. Sin embargo, su intento se ve obstaculizado por las barreras sociales y su propia confusión moral.

Après avoir quitté son petit ami durant des vacances ratées, Anna Maria Giusti rentre chez elle. Lorsqu’elle passe récupérer son courrier chez sa voisine Constanza Altavilla, elle trouve celle-ci étendue sur le sol, sa tête baignant dans une flaque de sang. Pour le légiste, cela ne fait aucun doute, la vieille dame a été terrassée par une crise cardiaque et, dans sa chute, sa tête a heurté le radiateur de sa chambre. Dépêché sur les lieux, le commissaire Brunetti ne trouve aucune preuve flagrante infirmant cette hypothèse.

Thank you so much for discovering Leon M A Edwards Novel. Buried under the other millions of amazing and brilliant best seller books on Amazon! A budding writer since 2016 undiscovered diamond in the rough. Please don’t click away until you read on! Powerful betrayal forces an innocent woman into a deadly romance for survival. "My training taught me to see every person as a factor, every emotion as a liability. Yet, the closer the threat gets, the less I think about the security perimeter and the more I think about her safety, her future—her. If my duty is to protect her, then this ...

About the book This legendary book tells everything about the spirit world and its manifestations in vivid detail. From Europe to the UK, and all over the US, not forgetting places as unusual as Brazil, and from the distant past of humanity, INTO THE UNSEEN does justice to them all, while revealing Léon Denis's very personal take on Spiritism and New Spiritualism in general. A fascinating narrative backed by a plethora of extraordinary cases carefully researched by the author. This English translation is the first to thoroughly update and research hundreds of footnote references. Contents ...

Oregon, Sommer 1983 - eine Serie mysteriöser Todesfälle rüttelt das kleine Küstenstädtchen Harmony Bay aus seinem friedlichen Schlaf. Und Sheriff Cody, den es nach dem Tod seiner Frau dorthin verschlagen hat, wird bereits kurz nach seiner Ankunft zur Pflicht gerufen, denn es geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Ein Gefangenentransport zerschellt an einer Klippe - die beiden Fahrer liegen tot im Führerhaus, von dem Gefangenen fehlt jede Spur. Ein Mann, der vorgibt, von der Regierung zu sein, übernimmt den Fall. Gleichzeitig klopft ein mysteriöser Fremder an die Türen der Einwohner und verteilt Kugelschreiber. Und als Doc Schulz zwei weitere Todesfälle untersucht, macht er eine schreckliche Entdeckung. Bald wird klar: Hinter der idyllischen Fassade der kleinen Stadt - lauert etwas Böses...

Tired of his disconnected life and uninspiring job, Leon Logothetis leaves it all behind - job, money, home, and even his cell phone - and hits the road with nothing but the clothes on his back and five dollars in his pocket, relying on the kindness of strangers and the serendipity of the open road for his daily keep. Along the way, Leon offers up the intriguing and charming tales gathered along his one-of-a-kind journey: riding in trains, buses, big rigs and classic cars; sleeping on streets and couches and firehouses....

Over ten years have passed since Joanna fled her Yorkshire home in distress and shame. Now aged twenty-eight, she is established in London society. But she also has a secret life known to few. How unfortunate that she should come to the notice of Detective Inspector Matthew Harcourt, a senior member of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch. His all-seeing eyes miss nothing. How long can she deceive him as to her real identity? If he discovers the truth, her work is over, along with her means of support and her claims on the neat Georgian house that is her home. When he commissions her to...

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality. We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he argues for nationalist dominance against forces temporal and religious.

En ce maussade lundi de printemps, le commissaire Guido Brunetti pensait n’avoir rien d’autre à faire que de lire des rapports, quand il reçoit soudain un appel fiévreux de la directrice d’une prestigieuse bibliothèque vénitienne. Plusieurs livres anciens et de grande valeur ont été endommagés, d’autres ont même disparu. Les employés soupçonnent un chercheur américain venu à plusieurs reprises consulter les livres, mais pour Brunetti, quelque chose ne colle pas.

meet Nathaniel Sandiford, DUKE OF SHERBORNE. As a scholar at Eton College, he brings a sense of entitlement and a supercilious confidence to all he does, not least his swordsmanship. But then he attends a fencing class at Angelo’s School of Arms and get soundly thrashed by a 12 year old lad called Jack. He vows to improve his skills with a view to a re-match one day, which he intends to win. What he doesn’t know is that Jack is really Jacinta, daughter of a tutor at Angelo’s, where she assists by sparring with the younger boys.

Le commissaire Brunetti reçoit un jour la visite de Claudia Leonardo, une étudiante élève de sa femme. La requête de la jeune fille l'intrigue : elle veut savoir si son grand-père, qui a commis un crime pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, peut être réhabilité après sa mort. Mais elle reste évasive quant à la nature de ce crime. Brunetti mène l'enquête et apprend qu'il pourrait bien s'agir d'un trafic d'œuvres d'art. Lorsque Claudia est retrouvée poignardée dans son appartement, les choses se compliquent.

Un soir d’hiver, alors que la neige tombe sur la Sérénissime, une femme blonde juchée sur des hauts talons et enveloppée dans un manteau de fourrure croise la route du commissaire Guido Brunetti. Elle s’appelle Franca Marinello, a un visage empreint d’une étrange fixité, cite Cicéron ou Virgile par cœur, et est mariée à un homme d’affaires vénitien connu. Brunetti, fasciné par la personnalité de Franca, enquête à la demande de son beau-père sur le mari tout en suivant une autre affaire qu’il pense expédier.